Newlyweds Jean Thomas (née Bell) and Albert (Bert) Thomas (holding a kitten) stand in the yard of their frame house in Logan, West Virginia. Jean and Bert were married for less than a year, so this picture was likely taken in 1913-1914.
Newlyweds Jean Thomas (née Bell) and Albert (Bert) Thomas stand on the porch of their frame house in Logan, West Virginia. Jean and Bert were married for less than a year, so this picture was likely taken in 1913-1914. Another house, as well as...
Buildings; Theaters; Cultural facilities; Majestic Theatre (Louisville, Ky.)
Address: 618 S. Fourth Street (Building no longer exists.) The Majestic opened as a vaudeville theater in 1908. Beyond that fact, however, its history is far less certain. The most commonly stated version is that the 1908 theater was torn down and...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. There is water damage to the bottom of corner of each page of this issue that makes portions illegible. Page one of this...
Portrait of left profile of actor Frank E. Aiken. He is wearing a three-piece suit and striped tie. Aiken first performed at Macauley's Theatre on January 18-23, 1875, in Bartley Campbell's "Van, The Virginian" and returned in...
Maps; Housing; Real property--Kentucky--Louisville; Housing--Kentucky--Louisville; City planning--United States--Maps; City planning--Kentucky--Louisville
Maps of Louisville's properties created by federally-funded Works Progress Administration (WPA). Three copies of this book were used to create a complete set of maps, since each one lacked one or more of the maps. Printed on cover: "Volume II...
Riverside Baptist Church, located less than a mile from Oneida, up Goose Creek road at the mouth of Lick Branch. The Oneida school charter was signed here by the Board of Trustees in 1899. The church was later converted to a residence.
Portraits; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union; Generals--American--1860-1870; Generals; Military uniforms; Military officers
Portrait of Richard Sherwood Satterlee (1798-1880), who was assigned to duty in New York City as attending surgeon and Medical Purveyor for the Union Army during the United States Civil War (brevet brigadier general). Removal of the wounded from...
Stores & shops; Department stores; Window displays; Famines; Food relief
Window display at Kaufman Straus on famine in food shortages in Europe. Two mannequins - a woman and child - stand in front of a broken brick wall. Text on either side of the scene compares American food consumption to European. Text on the bottom...
Vertical pair of signs for Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. The top sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Save Money - More Heat - Less Ash" with a picture of an eagle. The bottom sign reads "Sterns Golden Eagle Coal. Sterns Coal Co.-...
City & town life; Railroads; Street railroads; Pedestrians
View of Broadway avenue in Saint Louis, Missouri. Street with back of streetcar, horses and wagons, carriages, and pedestrians with a row of buildings on the left and wires and poles near the right. Title: (28) Street scene in the largest city of...
"This ring is formed from a circular hollow band made from rolled and soldered gold leaf, which flares out near the bezel. The bezel, rectangular in shape but with rounded corners, is set with a blue-tinged agate in two layers against a white...
Galvanized steel and concrete. "Deacon's organically related forms often derive from sources in the Bible, poetry, fairy stories, and figures of speech. In the two versions of the laminated wood sculpture For Those Who Have Ears (1982-3), for...
Sculpture; Effigies; Portraits; Men; Philosophers; People associated with education & communication; Clothing & dress; Beards; Mustaches
"This effigy of the august man of letters was inspired by portraits of Greek philosophers from the fourth and third centuries B.C., but it remains true to the art of the Antonine portrait in its attempts to convey sensitivity and...
"Here the god is shown standing, naked, a coat thrown over his left shoulder. His left arm is raised and perhaps at one time leaned on a long scepter. The thunderbolt in his right hand and the eagle at his feet are other attributes of this...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Prints; Broadsides; Broadsides; Advertisements; Advertising; Language; Communication; Communication devices; Inscriptions; Lettering (Layout features); Punctuation; Question marks
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
Notes from catalog entry, p. 603: GMS 34; Roethel and Benjamin assigned the title Johannisstrasse from a Window of the Griesbräu which specifies the view from Kandinsky's room on an upper floor; "Kandinsky painted the view from the window of...
